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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A woman accused of releasing bees on Sheriff’s deputies to stop an eviction at a Longmeadow home this past October was in court on Wednesday. Woman given bees back after alleged attack during Longmeadow eviction Rebecca Susan Woods of Hadley appeared in Springfield District Court Wednesday morning. According to the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office, on October 12th, Woods pulled up to an ongoing eviction on Memory Lane in Longmeadow in a blue Nissan Xterra. Woods left her dog in the car and immediately went to the bee hives being towed by her SUV, and tried to...

Police want to know who burned dozens of beehives in a town just south of Houston. One of the beekeepers said the losses are truly staggering. "We're looking at 500,000 to 600,000 (bees) that have been destroyed out of that environment," Steve Brackmann, who sells beekeeping supplies and queen bees, told CNN affiliate KTRK.

MCNEAL — Once it housed soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca, then it was moved to McNeal and was filled with the sounds of happy feet dancing and the chattering of ladies at coffee cloches. Now abandoned, there are new inhabitants that really are no fun — killer bees. The irritable, six-legged flying pollinators have been in the building on Frontier Road for a number of years, tending huge honeycombs and creating problems for those who walk their dogs, ride horses or just take a morning stroll. If one puts out nectar for the hummingbirds and orioles in spring within the...

DIXON (CBS13) — The price of honey has jumped in the last decade, leading to a jump in beehive thefts. That has beekeepers turning to technology to try and stop crooks from taking the hives. Keepers like Phil Hofland hoping the latest technology will sting those thieves trying to make off with the valuable hives. “You can come in here with a forklift and snag—I’ve seen people steal 30,000 to 50,000 in a half an hour,” he said. Beekeepers have always been concerned about theft, and have long tried to develop ways to prevent that from happening. But the age-old...

(NaturalNews) German government researchers have concluded that a bestselling Bayer pesticide is responsible for the recent massive die-off of honeybees across the country's Baden-Württemberg region. In response, the government has banned an entire family of pesticides, fueling accusations that pesticides may be responsible for the current worldwide epidemic of honeybee die-offs. Researchers found buildup of the pesticide clothianidin in the tissues of 99 percent of dead bees in Baden-Württemberg state. The German Research Center for Cultivated Plants concluded that nearly 97 percent of honeybee deaths had been caused directly by contact with the insecticide."It can unequivocally be concluded that a...